![]() Terry faced a foe that used a weapon not even he knew of that foe was an entity that stole his identity. What happens when your personality gets stolen from you? This question forms the base of ‘The Outsider’ story. Disbelief proved to be a powerful weapon for The Outsider because he utilized the lack of acknowledgment of supernatural forces by the law to commit his crimes. However, Ralph discovered that the supernatural was real and that his disbelief in it caused an innocent man his life. ![]() In the story, the character of detective Ralph Anderson was a skeptic who always disbelieved in anything supernatural as he attributed everything to be systemic. The loss of disbelief is an integral part of ‘ The Outsider‘ story as it shows how people lost their sense of not believing in the supernatural. The Outsider Themes The Loss of Disbelief Stephen King’s depiction of The Outsider as an entity tells of the loss of childhood innocence and disbelief, themes similar to ones used by Stephen King in ‘It.’ ![]()
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